Abstract.
In this paper, we develop a novel method hybrid firefly algorithm-ant colony optimization for solving traveling salesman problem. The ACO has distributed computation to avoid premature convergence and the FA has a very great ability to search solutions with a fast speed to converge. To improve the result and convergence time, we used hybrid method. The hybrid approach involves local search by the FA and global search by the ACO. Local solution of FA is normalized and is used to initialize the pheromone for the global solution search using the ACO. The outcome are compared with FA and ACO itself. The experiment showed that the proposed method can find the solution much better without trapped into local optimum with shorter computation time.
Keywords: Traveling Salesman Problem, Firefly Algorithm, Ant Colony Optimization, hybrid method.
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